Feed-dealers  calculated price-list



(No Model.) l s. A. GREENLBB.

l FEED DEALERS GALGULATED BEIGE LIST. ,y No. 357,663. Patented Feb. 1 5,1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL A. GREENLEE, OF CLARKSVILIJE, PENNSYLVANIA.

FEED-DEALERS CALCULATED PRICE-LIST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,663, dated February15, 1887.

Application filed "February 13, 1886. Serial No. 191,904. (No model.)

T @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, SAMUEL A. GREENLEE, of Clarksville, Greene county,Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefullmprovement in Feed-DealersCalculated Price-Lists,which improvement is fully set forth in thefollowing 'Y speciiication, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. y Thisinvention has relation to improvements in calculators; and it consistsin the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafterdescribed, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

rlhe object of my invention is to provide a suitable device known as aprice-list for mill-men or feed-dealers, whereby the price of grain,te., is always calculated, as will be seen in the accompanying drawing,in which the figure illustrates a perspective view of my device, a partof the top boxing being broken away to show the means for carrying themovable slotted arm, all of which will be more fully hereinafterspecified. Y

The letter A designates the frame of my improvement, made in rectangularform, having at its top portion a cap 0r boxing, A', for a purposehereinafter described. To the face part of this frame is secured acard-board, A2. At the top of said board, in a horizontal line,

' is a row ot' figures ranging from 60e. to $2.25.

These figures represent the price per hundredweight. Immediately undereach of the hundred-weight figures, so called, is a vertical doublecompanion row of figures. These two vertical rows lie parallel and areruled into equal squares. Theleft vertical row represents the number ofpounds from l to 12 and from 9() to 99, and its parallel companion rowindicates the price in cents from l to 7 and 54 to 59. In practice theleft vertical row of gures, indicating pounds, is from l to 99,inclusive, and its companion row of calculated figures, representingcents, ranges from l to 59. The break in the consecutiveness of thefigures in the vertical lines, as shown in the drawing, is made tocondense and simplify the illustration. l A similar omission is made inthe horizontal 5o line of figures representing the price perhundred-weight. In practice this horizontal line increases from left toright and decreases from right to left in its price representation by anarithmetical ratio of live cents. No increase or decrease in price lessthan iive cents per hundredweight or multiples thereof is estimated inthe calculation.

As'it would not be practical to make all possible calculations betweenthe minimum price aforesaid and the maximum, and also for every poundfrom one up to ninety-nine pounds, I present what I deem proper to fullyshow my invention.

The letter B indicates a slide movable horizontally. This slide has acentral vertical slot corresponding in width to the width of two of thevertical rows of figures. The letters a a indicate the two parallelvertical arms of the slide. The lower end of said slide is provided witha handle, B.

The upper end of the slide or movable arm B is provided with two shortbent arms, b b, in which are j ournaled two rollers, c c. These rollersare mounted on a cross-bar, D. The ends of this cross-bar are secured atc to the inner ends of theboxing A. Thisbar is shown through the brokenopening in the boxing. The continuation-outer ends thereof-is shown indotted lines.

The operation of the device is as follows: Vhen the value of feed isseventy-five cents per hundred-weight, the slide B is moved so that the750. per cwt.77 on the board will appear through the slotin the side-a'.e., between the arms aa of said slide. When in this position, the doublevertical row of gures-one indicating pounds from 1 to 99 and the othercents from l t-o 74-also appears through said slot. Now, these twocompanion parallel vertical lines are so arranged that immediatelyadjoining on the l'right each figure representing pounds is the figurewhich indicates the price at seventy-tive cents per hundred-weight.Suppose ninety-five pounds of feed are sold at seventy-ve cents perhundred-weight, (the slide being in the position shown in theaccompanying drawing.) It will be seen by referring to the gure 95 inthe vertical lbs. line that the gurejl ap pears as its companion. Itthereby readily appears that at seventy-five cents per hundred-weightninety-five pounds will cost seventy-one cents. At the same price perhundred-weight ten pounds will cost eight cents, ninety-eight will costseventy-four cents, Svc.

All calculations, of course, are previously made and printed, so thatthe price per hundred-weight and the iigures and cents in the verticalcompanion lines will correspond and.

readily disclose the desired information, substantially as set forth inthe illustration and description given above of the rate at seventyvecents per hundred-weight.

In the drawing it will be seen that a thin vertical line separates thedouble companion rows representing lbs and cts., while a comparativelyheavy line (and in practice preferably a colored one) separates thedouble companion rows. By this means the eye can readily follow a lineand locate the desired figures without the aid ofthe movable handle orslotted slide. The slide, however, is so easily manipulated that it ispreferably employed in locating` the righ-t iigures.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentl. A board having on its face a horizontal row offigures, preferably at its top, representing a price per hundred-weight,a series of iigures in double companion rows running at right angles tothe said hundred-weight row, each of the double companion rowsrepresent` ing pounds and cents, respectively, and lyingimmediatelyunder theigure in the hundred- Weight row with which itconforms, in combination with a vertically-slotted slide movablehorizontally, the slotin the said slide conforming in width to the widthofone of the double companion rows representing` pounds and cents,substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

2. A board having on its face a horizontal row of gures, preferably atits top, representing a price per hundred-weight, a series of iigures indouble companion rows running at right angles to the said hundred-weightrow, each of the double companion rows representing pounds and cents,respectively, and lying immediately under the iigure in thehundredweight row with which it conforms, in combi nation with avertically-slotted slide movable horizontally, the slotin said slideconforming in width to the width of one of the double companion rowsrepresenting pounds 'and cents, and a boxing or cap at the top of theboard, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing` as niyinvention I hereto set myhand in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL A. GREENLEE.

Witnesses:

W. E. ALEXANDER, S. S. FrsHBURN.

